,
6 tweets,
4 min read
Read on Twitter
I haven’t missed a key debate since 1976, but most Americans experience debates the way I am doing so yesterday and today. I’ll write up the results for @washingtonpost on Thursday for Friday or Saturday publication. But it’s a very different way to absorb politics. 2
The experiment has already revealed @BernieSanders and @ewarren are committed to over-the-cliff, election forfeiting positions, that @PeteButtigieg continues to build his appeal to the voters exhausted by @realDonaldTrump and that it is unlikely anyone else on stage survives. 3
Before long GOP voters are going to begin to strategically re-register in primary states to help lift either @BernieSanders or @ewarren to nomination. The “professionals” say that can’t happen. The same professionals who said @realDonaldTrump couldn’t win. But it will happen. 4
And in larger numbers than anyone expects. Because our hyper-politicized country understands the rules very well, and thinks through the game theory aspects of the cycle. It is Manhattan-Beltway media elite vanity that dismisses strategic voting in primaries. 5
On to another blissful evening of ignoring the debate as it rolls out then feasting on the analysis of hundreds of close observers. 6.
